Quieting snacks/food?

Thanks for all the input guys. I'll be looking for some of those reusable produce bags.

Papaclaude said:
Yeah. I love it when you buy hunting clothes and the pockets use velcro closures. Gives you a clues as to the designer's hunting experience. Some of the best hunting gear I've bought was, from all places, Giant Tiger, when they get the Ducks Unlimited stuff - truly practical, quiet and long-lasting.

Sorry for derailing the thread.
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Fk you and your giant tiger too! Lol

We don't have Giant Tiger out west. My wife (grew up in Ontario) always extolled the awesomeness that was giant tiger, and a few years ago I got to check one out when we went back east to visit and I have to say it was a neat store. Got a nice blaze orange fleece for like $5, and some super warm pj pants for half that...
 
MiG25 said:
I've had Moose and Deer come to my quad and truck, shortly after parking them.
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Well that's it then, drive into the bush and rev the engine until your meat shows up, if you honk the horn too it might load itself in the truck before you shoot.
 
being in the right place at the right time has more to do with success than any other factor

I guess if your hunting ego must be fed by nothing but trophies and bragging rights, you have to do whatever it takes to up the odds in your favor.
But if you are like most folks and just want the experience of hunting in beautiful country, harvesting a nice animal and enjoying yourself, pretty sure a little noise here n there are the least of one's concerns.
 
medvedqc said:
biggest noise i made was with a chainsaw and it brings roebuck males during the rut ...hard to hold a rifle and a chainsaw. lol
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I’ve had this happen while getting firewood when the snow was on the ground, deer showed up to eat the old mans beard on the branches. They were getting prettty brave while we were loading up the trucks, was fun to watch them creep in.
 
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hoytcanon said:
Well that's it then, drive into the bush and rev the engine until your meat shows up, if you honk the horn too it might load itself in the truck before you shoot.
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Haha so I guess you have a pretty firm opinion on this.

I agree with you, I think folks who have good habits have more consistent success. Of course there’s always someone getting lucky while doing all the wrong things. It’s happened to me a time or two.
 
it is interesting seeing what noises "do" attract big game animals though.
I will never forget the first time I got active responses from a calling moose. I was slogging thru some swampy bush making all kinds of racket and kept hearing a grunting sound. I'd stop and listen and heard nothing. Start slogging on and thought I heard it again. So I stopped and raked some bush with my rifle stock and figured out pretty quick I was walking right in on a bull and he wasn't moving. My buddy 50 yards to my left got eyes on him first and the work began.
Have brought a few nice bulls in to the calls and smashing/raking bush. Should getting my big one back from the taxidermist soon I hope. :)
Several times hunting deer I have had a buck hold up on it's trail and a couple soft doe bleats in a mouth call put him at ease almost instantly and continued coming into the shooting lane.

but crinkling candy wrappers and Velcro..... I tell my hunting partners to leave those at home hehehe.
 
45ACPKING said:
it is interesting seeing what noises "do" attract big game animals though.
I will never forget the first time I got active responses from a calling moose. I was slogging thru some swampy bush making all kinds of racket and kept hearing a grunting sound. I'd stop and listen and heard nothing. Start slogging on and thought I heard it again. So I stopped and raked some bush with my rifle stock and figured out pretty quick I was walking right in on a bull and he wasn't moving. My buddy 50 yards to my left got eyes on him first and the work began.
Have brought a few nice bulls in to the calls and smashing/raking bush. Should getting my big one back from the taxidermist soon I hope. :)
Several times hunting deer I have had a buck hold up on it's trail and a couple soft doe bleats in a mouth call put him at ease almost instantly and continued coming into the shooting lane.

but crinkling candy wrappers and Velcro..... I tell my hunting partners to leave those at home hehehe.
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Moose are interesting critters, and not very hyped on adrenaline. Many times we'd be hauling one out with the skidder and one or more would come out to see what we were up to. My father-in-law, who was a logger but never hunted a day in his life, had one come up behind him and nudge him when he was rolling a cigarette. One, we had gotten the biggest moose I'd ever seen in my life. We were hooting it up, had the skidder running, and drove to the edge of a beaver pond in a muffler-less 5-ton. We looked and there was a small buck and 2 cows not 100 feet away, just looking at us, wondering what those crazy humans were up to, I guess. I've never seen deer behave anywhere near that way.
 
Is there any concern with certain snacks being "smellier"? I hear lots about how sensitive deer are to scent... maybe foods don't make deer nervous like the smell of a human does though?
 
You can buy a special waxed dish towel or make your own and wrap up your food. I usually pack peeled boiled eggs, cheese, bread, cold cuts, pickles - a version of a ploughman's lunch.
 
I've switched to using silicone resealable ziplock like bags. They are quiet and reusable. You can get them with flat bottoms the stand on their own. Going to try Hawkins cheeses this season also
 
hoytcanon said:
How many of those deer that snuck up on you did you kill?

What cracks me up are all the casual (rookie) hunters that make an observation about wildlife and draw absolutely the wrong conclusion... such as what you have done here... you are not alone... also participating are all of the hunters who have had big game animals walk up on them from downwind, and hunt the rest of their careers with the firm belief that wind direction doesn't matter, when unbeknownst to them, in the original occurence a thermal quirk, of heat and or terrain actually blew their scent away from the animal and it had never detected them at all... and they wonder why their success rate is so low for the next 20 years.

If you think you can walk into a big game animals habitat and be sloppy and careless and consistently harvest animals, particularly older more experienced animals, then you are simply foolish.

Details matter, not always, but most of the time... occasionally some rookie walks into the woods in a jogging suit, smoking a cigarette and shoots a big buck with a borrowed gun, but those episodes are few and far between. Deer, bears, moose, elk get big by avoiding predators, of which humans are but one. To be consistently successful pay attention to details and learn about your quarry's habitat and biology and patterns.

Or you can try it your way, sit around a campfire crinkling up beer cans, telling stories about the big buck you are going to shoot when it eventually walks up and asks for a marshmallow.
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Seeing as I have no problem stalking within 10-15 yards of heavily pressured deer and turkey on public land before I stick an arrow in them on a regular basis, I am pretty sure I have it figured out. I enjoy the challenge of getting close so much that I consider using a rifle past 75 yards or bow past 25 yards to be cheating and unsporting.


It's quite comical that you have labeled me a lazy rookie hunter simply because I say a worrying about a food wrapper is foolish. If only we could get together for a stalking challenge to offer me the opportunity to embarrass you...
 
I dont think my fuzzy peaches or gummy bears ever scares away any big game but i know for fact that cgn on my phone has saved a few. Love those awkward moments when you look up and theres a deer staring right at you 20 yards in front. Broadside. Your bow crossed your legs. You look at them. Admire them. Wonder how the hell they snuck up on you when you can hear every chipmunks step for 3oo yards lol. But hey ive also shot alot of bucks while slowing putting the phone down and picking up the bow or rifle.
Sometimes a phone is like opening a coke while duck hunting...skies can be empty till you wrestle out your gear and take a big swig with your gun down then get a fly by by a flock of cans. It happens. Im out there for a good time and can still laugh when i screw up
 
Apples seem good. Can bite and chew with caution and hear your self think. I just don't like bananas, just me. Cliff bars unwrapped previous sound good. Thanks for making me think on this, helpful
 
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